At 7:54 PM -0400 1/10/99, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>Is it just me, or is the "boolean"-search operator "not" in
>htsearch confusing?
It's not you. This has come up several times. Jesse op den Brouw, among
others has brought this up.
>I think it is mislabeled; it should be called "without" since
Technically speaking it's "NAND" or "not and" but without is certainly a
better term.
>If it's ok, I would like to submit a patch that adds the word
>"without" as a synonym operator for the current behavior of
>"not", then later hopefully a patch to make "not" valid as an
>unary operator as well as binary (much like minus in arithmetic
>expressions).
Sure. (And why wouldn't it be OK?)
>If it's *not* ok, then at least the patches below to the
>documentation and syntax.html needs to be fixed to mention "not"
>and how it works; there's only a spurious note in RELEASE.html
>that '"and", "or" and "not" [are fixed]'.
They're in the queue.
-Geoff
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